Quotes
Authors
Samuel R. Delany

"You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them."

Source : Samuel R. Delany (1969). “Babel-17”, Macmillan Reference USA

Samuel R. Delany

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“Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.”
“When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks attractive enough to warrant investing your faith and assets in is as formidable a task as finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, researching investment opportunities is a lot more interesting than digging for needles in haystacks.”
“A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.”
“When someone offends me, I think itâ€™s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.”
“In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.”
“Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we are controlled, the best ever evolved by man, so far as we are able to judge. The Lord has strengthened the arms of the patriots who have defended us against the assaults of all those who have come up against us, and delivered us until today, from those who would have torn us asunder. Against all opposition, I sometimes think almost against ourselves, the Lord has brought us to our present condition, until this nation, like a city set on a hill, has become the light of the world.”
“History's greatest monster.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.”

Source : Bernard Iddings Bell (1947). “A Man Can Live ...”

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